Imamzade Rabi'a Khatun

This square dome chamber shares many construction and decorative features with the nearby Friday mosque of Ashtarjan, including polychrome plaster and a small-sized mud brick used in the mosque's dome chamber. Construction of the two structures possibly commenced concurrently; inscriptions indicate that the shrine was completed seven years before the mosque, perhaps due to the extensive decorative program of the latter. The interior walls, lined with a coat of white plaster, are articulated with eight shallow recesses filled with an applied plaster floral motif, capped by an area of painted details within the arch head.A noteworthy stucco mihrab was removed from the tomb shrine to the Tehran Archeological Museum during a recent period of restoration work. Source:Donald N. Wilber, The Architecture of Islamic Iran, (New York: Greenwood Press, 1969).